Last week, Wirt informed the list that he has been overwhelmed with private
responses to his public off-topic postings.  He apologized and explained he
would answer none of them.  He mentioned the breadth of subjects covered,
amongst which was how California got into its current energy mess.  Since Wirt
declined to comment on this specific issue, I thought I would pick up the slack
and answer this one.

How did California get into its current mess?

The following link will explain the situation in California:

http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/opinion/columns/krauthammercharles/A12544-2
001Feb15.html

California has not built a single power plant in 10 years, yet the economy of
that state has grown 34% in that time.  Texas on the other hand, has built 22
power plants in the last 5 years and will have 12 more by the end of this year.
 Texas is now selling electricity to California, as is Quebec and other
regions.

California, the state that prides itself on having the sixth largest economy in
the world, now generates less electricity per capita than any other state in
the Union.  What is dangerous here is that other states are being forced to
sell some of their reserves to California.  Because of California's lack of
reality, other states could get hurt.

I wonder what will happen when the warm weather arrives and air conditioning
demand kicks in!

Kind regards,

Denys. . .

Denys Beauchemin
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